221 - Constructing Opportunity: The Evolution of the Role of Nursing Informatics /// Consulting as a Nursing Informatics Career Path: Considerations for Success

In-Brief Concurrent Sessions:

Constructing Opportunity: The Evolution of the Role of Nursing Informatics
This presentation uses the construction of a state-of-the-art, 372-bed hospital on a brand new campus as an example to provide insight into how the distinctive skill set of nursing informatics can serve as a foundation for other career and development opportunities.

Consulting as a Nursing Informatics Career Path: Considerations for Success
This session explores the opportunities available within healthcare IT for nursing informaticists as a consultant. The evolution of the types of roles and organizations that are available for informatics nurses as a contracted resource, as well as the background and experience required for success and gained along this career path, are addressed. The experience of how working as a contracted resource can be different from roles as a traditional employee and what informatics nurses should be prepared for before making a transition to consulting is discussed.

Continuing Education Instructions and Disclosure Information:

Contact hours available until 4/29/2024.

Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) evaluation. You will be able to print your NCPD certificate at any time after you complete the evaluation.

Disclosure of relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies (planners, faculty/speakers, reviewers):

Planning Committee and Abstract Reviewer Disclosures:
There are no Planning Committee and Abstract Reviewer disclosures to declare.

Speaker Disclosures:
There are no speaker disclosures to declare.

Commercial Support:
No commercial support declared.

Accreditation Statement:
This educational activity is jointly provided by Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. (AJJ) and the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA).

Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 5387.

Learning Outcomes:
After completing this learning activity, the participant will be able to identify one strategy nursing informaticists can employ when engaged in change management.

After completing this learning activity, the participant will be able to identify one opportunity available for the nursing informatics professional to become a consultant.